i have just posted a new article at http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/5min.htm that is copied below.
can you please check it and make any suggestions?
a few bits may not make total sense as they are links to other pages in the website.
It parallels very well with the philosophical question posed in the movie The Matrix when Morpheus says to Neo:
I was watching The Matrix the other night and thought Hey, it's just like leaving the WTS. While you're in the Matrix, it's normal. When you're ready and are shown the truth, you realize the reality of the lie you were living.
as most of us here are aware, the watchtower "study" weekly meeting is no "study" at all.
paragraphs are read, pre-arranged questions are asked, and the "correct" answer is a slight re-wording of the sentences in the paragraph.. however, sometimes (many times?
depending on the congregation), members could use the study as a way to publicly air their opinions on a variety of topics, without fear of interruption (so long as the answer was couched in enough "theocratese").
In 1984 when Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came out, a group of about 10 of us in the hall went to see it. This was a very small congregation and the resident holier-than-thou pioneer found out we went. The next day was Sunday and I was reading for the WT study, which was about, appropriately enough, avoiding worldly influences such as 'bad' entertainment. Well, she was prepared. She proceeded to launch into a 5-minute (literally, 5-minute) comment on how NO true Christian would ever see this movie or view this as entertainment. She also read an entire movie review that discussed the movie's violence and spiritism and described the 'heart removal' scene in detail. I guess she didn't realize that to the 30 people in the hall who had NO idea why she was giving this mini-public talk that she looked like a total idiot......
Were is that song about bees that where molested and that I can never beat them off? I can never sing that with a straight face.
Uhhh, don't remember that one.
My favorite was always "Firm and Determined"....it had that minor-y 'Wagner' feel to it....
Why doesn't it say
"And to be sheep or to be goats
We'll let the people choose....
After a crappy 30-second presentation memorized 15 minutes before the meeting for field service given by someone wishing that it were 10:30 so they could go on break.....
for anyone facing my situation i recommend not being scared.
it is not money i am after, what it would be good to achieve is make the wts so scared of publically announcing anyone that they end up changing their d/f policy.. this is what happened.
for anyone facing my situation i recommend not being scared.
Yes, congratulations are in order. I'll be honest, I didn't read all of your letter to the Society due to time constraints, but what I did read was excellent. Very well thought out and presented. Too bad all that effort and thought was most likely wasted on the deaf, dumb, and blind (to reality, anyway).
the circuit overseer in a neighboring circuit has been telling audiences in his visits to the congregations the following:.
the governing body feels that the massacre in rwanda happened because satan wanted to get at the witnesses in that country.. i agree that satanic influence could have been behind it..........but do you think the thousands of casualties were caused solely to affect the small minority of witnesses there?.
i suppose it's the same logic that ww1 + ww2 happened to get at the remnant of the 144,000. any comments on this?.
Wonder if he has any backing from the Old Bodies (uh, I mean, the GB) on that one. If Satan wanted to get at the JW's in Rwanda, why didn't he just wait until a Sunday morning and then send his homies to the KH's in that country???
As AlmostAthiest stated, it's ALWAYS about them. Like the arrogance in claiming that the seven trumpets (or however many it was) of Revelation were fulfilled by seven assemblies in the 1920's......yeah, a book survives 2,000 years to prophesy about some 1920's gatherings of a religious group/cult of a few thousand people.....
we all know that the nwt is a truly lousy version if the bible.
when they started using the bible why did they not add their own writings.
i know they use the wt and other books but i mean, in the lines like the mormans did.
That is an interesting point. This was the same group (the Catholic church) that also accepted around the same time period (roughly) the doctrines of the Trinity, hellfire, eternal soul, etc. So if the Society's thought is that the men who gathered the Bible canon were somehow 'inspired' (and, as you point out, they must, as they accept that canon), then how did they suddenly become 'un-inspired' when it came to their acceptance of those 'false' doctrines?
im getting a bit sick of it of late to be honest.
i hardly know anyone that has come into the truth from witnessing recently and i certainly never get any biblestudies.
i guess the internet is doing it's job...... this myspace forum is a sickening, twisted picture of the still-disillusioned - it's great.
watch out for an apostate who has this information. Cyrus Male 26 Bryan Texas. Tried to make me stumble. Hes talked to me before and I blocked him. He probably deleted it and created a new one.
Krystal,
That was me...lol. I guess he and the other posers (uh, I mean 'posters') in that thread didn't care for my version of the truth - which was to respectfully disagree. This guy has a song playing on his profile on the site that has enough 'f' bombs to make a sailor blush and he has naked women all over his profile....but I'm trying to stumble HIM??? What a joke.....
im getting a bit sick of it of late to be honest.
i hardly know anyone that has come into the truth from witnessing recently and i certainly never get any biblestudies.
i guess the internet is doing it's job...... this myspace forum is a sickening, twisted picture of the still-disillusioned - it's great.
If you want to change someone's viewpoints, thats fine. But going into a JW-youth discussion forum and pretending to be a devout witness or a potential bible student is wrong. If you want to save these kids, make up an ex-witness my space discussion group and they'll lurk and see the info for themselves.
Why is it wrong? They pretend to be Bible students....they are WATCHTOWER students. I'll bet half of them haven't truly opened their Bibles in 10 years except to read a few texts in the WATCHTOWER study, or when trying to place the WATCHTOWER.....
im getting a bit sick of it of late to be honest.
i hardly know anyone that has come into the truth from witnessing recently and i certainly never get any biblestudies.
i guess the internet is doing it's job...... this myspace forum is a sickening, twisted picture of the still-disillusioned - it's great.
I have the right to go on a public forum and try to prevent people from joining and/or convincing members to leave.
Right on....'nuff said....
